After laying off 8,000 employees earlier this year, Salesforce wants to rehire about 40 per cent of them again.
More than 3,300 new employees will be hired, including some recently told to clean their desks.
Workers needed include engineers, sales and cloudy experts.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said that the outfit knew it had to hire thousands. This is a little odd, given that he thought he had to fire 8000 in January due to a bad case of economic headwinds and budget tightening.
With the 3,300 new employees expected to be hired, the San Francisco-based company will only see a 4,700 reduction in headcount in 2023.
Last week, the company held its Dreamforce 2023 event, which saw a slew of new product and enhanced partnership launches, which might be challenging to pull off with a skeleton staff.
Slack, a popular messaging subsidiary of Salesforce, is also reportedly looking to hire new or rehire former staff to drive generative AI.
Slack was looking to hire many new roles during its third quarter in its product development engineering team, focusing on generative AI.
At Dreamforce 2023, generative AI was the main focus, with the company debuting its Einstein 1 Platform, an AI tool that promises the ability to connect any data for AI-powered application-building safely.
